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Brave was started by one of the Founders of Mozilla.
Proud Boys was started by one of the founders of Vice media too. That doesn't make them any less of a hate group or less shady.
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DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
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#242Well, after using DDG exclusively for web search since maybe 2014, I'll have to jump ship. I was never chuffed about them not using their own index, but removing priate sites and yt-dl, and the improving.duckduckgo.com business is exactly the type of behaviour I left Google for DDG over.
I've liked what little of Brave Search I've used, but I'm not in love with Brave as a company either so perhaps I'll audition some of the paid web search options.
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#243It's amazing how much collateral damage is caused by our horrible copyright laws. Mostly just so the MPA/RIAA can protect their roles as gatekeepers of what we're allowed to see and hear. They can put enormous pressure on even the wealthiest and most powerful companies to act as copyright police on their behalf. Even Google is afraid of them. ISPs are forced to spend huge amounts of time and money working for them. N…
There is no political will in the US to change the copyright system. Aside from some technologists, I haven't seen anybody who actually wants that. You will anger basically everyone else in the information business. Writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, even a lot of software developers, you name it. These people all depend on copyright enforcement to get pai…
> You have to play ball with them or they will simply not be able to produce those things anymore.
They should stop, and we can freely share what's left. Their bullshit crowds out everything else anyway.
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#244I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from. I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTED status (including some of the big names in search/ads/etc). But I've always had DDG in the TRUSTED category because I had only seen its javascript before on the main DDG website.…
I run uMatrix and have noticed some DDG showing up on other sites as well. The sites in question appeared to be (at least ostensibly) using it as a "can I reach the internet" sort of check. If I blocked requests, it would say something to the effect of "no connection detected." I wish I could remember which sites they were, but I do remember seeing at least one call to improving.duckduckgo.com from a 3rd party.
Isn't umatrix dead/unsupported since like a year or so ago?
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#245Snake oil marketing? Its results have become less relevant to me now. I am using Kagi and Neeva for search results. Kagi is still in the beta but it does offer reasonably good output.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
So where does one from here for everyday search? Google is out. Bing has many of the same problems as Google. Startpage blocks my VPN. Brave has always felt just a little "off" to me, but maybe they're worth a try. Any others I've missed that are worth looking into?
I found Kagi[0] from somewhere on HN -- they make pretty strong privacy claims, and are in a closed Beta stage right now (you can give them your email, and they'll send you a signup link within a week or two). They're planning to charge a fixed rate for their search engine once they're out of beta later this year. So far, it seems to be working really well for me! Results are pretty excellent, and they support the DD…
How do we know these privacy claims are true? What if Kagi was Chinese or Russian, would you still trust it and why? And how do we know Kagi doesn't end up the same way as DDG?
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#247I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from. I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTED status (including some of the big names in search/ads/etc). But I've always had DDG in the TRUSTED category because I had only seen its javascript before on the main DDG website.…
> So now I was wondering if DDG is getting into the tracking business Anecdotal of course, but I've been seeing more and more DDG billboards. Those things aren't cheap, and my trust in them has declined the more I see them advertise in the traditional market.
I actually noticed that the quality of the search dropped (from pretty much parity with google sans-cookies), then noticed the new billboards and radio ads afterwards. I've seen tv commercials since.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found Kagi[0] from somewhere on HN -- they make pretty strong privacy claims, and are in a closed Beta stage right now (you can give them your email, and they'll send you a signup link within a week or two). They're planning to charge a fixed rate for their search engine once they're out of beta later this year. So far, it seems to be working really well for me! Results are pretty excellent, and they support the DD…
How do we know these privacy claims are true? What if Kagi was Chinese or Russian, would you still trust it and why? And how do we know Kagi doesn't end up the same way as DDG?
I trust Yandex more than I trust Google, because Yandex doesn't give a shit about me. I'd certainly use an English-language Chinese search engine.
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#250Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth? I'd imagine there's good money in convincing people they have privacy because then they'll provide more interesting data. Has the company ever been audited? Why should they be trusted to not compromise user privacy? Imo at least Google is honest: you kno…
Here's my take: Duckduckgo could easily be fully owned and operated by some three letter agency. The NSA is already able to go onsite and tap into the data that passes through corporations and they've been doing exactly that for decades (see Room 641A) and they can force corporations to keep silent about it using national security letters. You should already assume that every US based company is sending every scrap o…
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